Importance Of Family In Night By Elie Wiesel

Family:
Before this class, I knew the importance of family. I have grown up in a really loving home, and we all stick together pretty closely. I love them more than anything else in my life, and I would do almost anything for them. Through this class, though, I have enjoyed reading about the different family experiences that people have told of, and it has been inspiring to me. I have also realized how much my family and I take for granted, and it makes me so much more appreciative to be with them, and to be safe. Experiences that I have read about redefine the bond of family and the hope and reliance that we have upon one another. Over the past semester, we have read a lot of sources that discuss family. We discovered what their family situation was before, during, and after the Holocaust, as well as how they survived, or if they even did. In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, he tells of how he is quickly ripped away from his mother and sisters, and how he and his father then cling to each other for hope. I cannot even imagine being separated from my family, especially …show more content…
Their belief in God was put to the biggest test, possibly the biggest one in the history of the world. As Elie Wiesel recounts, his struggle with his faith in God was a major trial. The reader watches as his faith, in the beginning, seemed very strong. After witnessing the horrors the Nazis imposed upon the Jews, his faith slowly begins to slip away. During this time, the victims also had to keep faith in people they did not know. They had to trust that others would come to their rescue and liberate them from their oppressors. Personally, I would think that faith in unknown people would be the hardest kind of faith to maintain. The faith displayed by survivors and those who were not able to make it through was truly inspiring to read about, and it was heartening to study the different situations in which immense amounts of faith was